Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrogate court in his county-a cushy job that paid $30,000 a year. Just as he was getting ready to campaign, he got a call from Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Manhattan. "Len," barked Sherman Adams, "you're taking the train." And so Hall rode with Ike, took care of his schedules and appointments, and acted as a jovial maitre d'hôtel aboard the campaign train. On Election Day, without ever delivering a speech for himself, he easily won his judgeship...
...friendly-looking man behind the thick-lensed glasses peered around him at the triumphal archway, the red, white, and green Italian flags, the guards of honor, the crowds, the bands, the bannered words of welcome: BENVENUTO AL PRESIDENTE GRONCHI. Along Pennsylvania Avenue he rode at a stately pace, surrounded by the trappings accorded only to the nation's most distinguished visitors, amid the resounding music of military bands. At the White House President Eisenhower was waiting on the steps. "So good to see you," Eisenhower greeted his visitor. "It is the first time an Italian President has visited this...
...election." On other main issues of his current campaign, such as the Administration's "giveaway" of public resources, its favoritism toward big business, and its "rattling of the saber" in world affairs, the author similarly charges that the G.O.P. has renounced the Democrat-inspired policies on which it rode into office...
...newly created seats (TIME, Dec. 5), Prime Minister Strydom was in a hurry to get on with his designs. His bill proclaiming the supremacy of a Parliament not answerable even to the courts, and striking the last 50,000 Colored (mixed blood) voters from the common roll, rode through first and second readings and was ready for final enactment as a constitutional amendment this week. The last constitutional safe guards enacted in South Africa's founding charter of 1909 to protect the rights of non-whites would thus be repealed. For the dispirited remnants of the once-powerful United...
...hands, apparently indifferent to the 190-ft. drop that awaited the least slip. He longed to be a member of Victor McLaglen's motorcycle corps of trick riders, and when he was 16 his father got him a secondhand cycle. For the next few years Bill rode blissfully about the streets of Pasadena, standing on the seat...